Removing Norton AntiVirus with a Script

For some reason the uninstaller from Symantec doesn’t work in removing Norton (NAV 10). My guess, without delving into their uninstaller too deeply is that they ran into what I ran into, which is that the com.symantec.* processes are prefixed by a bracketed alphanumeric sequence. To get around this I listed them and used grep to grab each one, then awk to grab the label and did a launchctl stop against the label name once I had it. The rest of this script is pretty straight forward forcing the rm of each of the contents of the items from the snapshot plus the items from the pkg BoM. Here’s the script, or you can download it here:

The apple doesn’t fall far from the tree does it? Norton won’t uninstall cleanly – just like on MS half the time. Why would you give intimate system level access to a company that consistently makes mistakes like this?